WASHINGTON—The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l
(ALPA), will recognize Delta Air Lines Capt. Larry Newman with its 2008
Presidential Citation for his outstanding efforts to advance aviation safety.
The award will be presented today during ALPA’s Air Safety Week in Washington,
D.C.

“Capt. Newman’s commitment to making air traffic
policies and procedures as safe and efficient as possible has helped set the
stage for our industry to meet the challenge of increasing air transportation
demand in the future,” said Capt. John Prater, ALPA’s president.

Capt. Newman has served as an ALPA safety
volunteer since 1994. He has also represented ALPA pilots in the international
aviation safety arena before the International Association of Air Line Pilots’
Associations (IFALPA).

Capt. Newman was chairman of ALPA’s Air Traffic
Services Group from 2001 to 2009. In this key position, he worked with
exhaustive dedication to advance initiatives to safely enhance capacity in the
air transportation system.

Capt. Newman has been instrumental in ALPA’s
efforts to transition the industry from ground- to space-based navigation
through area navigation (RNAV). Using RNAV procedures will allow airspace to be
used more efficiently, increasing capacity while reducing flight delays and fuel
consumption. RNAV is currently being used at Atlanta—Newman’s base—as well as at
Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Washington Dulles.

In the late 1990s, Capt. Newman played an
integral role in ALPA’s “Land and Hold Short Operations” (LAHSO) campaign, which
pressed the FAA to improve the safety of the land-and-hold-short procedures that
were designed to enhance airport capacity. When the FAA released its final order
on LAHSO in 2000, the agency had addressed ALPA’s five areas of concern, and the
new directive marked another important, and safe, capacity enhancement for the
industry.

During his 15 years of safety work with ALPA,
Capt. Newman has also pursued standardized air traffic control phraseology and
wake protection zones to safeguard aircraft from wake turbulence during takeoff
and landing.

“ALPA pilots across the continent appreciate
Capt. Newman’s important work and join me in congratulating him on this honor,”
concluded Capt. Prater.

Founded in 1931, ALPA is the world’s largest
pilots union, representing nearly 54,000 pilots at 36 airlines in the United
States and Canada.